kcoffey

I have come across a Crescent Gram, from 1998, it has nice components...all XTR ...but I cant really find any information on it...it is swedish, and I tried some swedish mtb forums but could not read or translate them...here are some pics

https://s837.photobucket.com/user/kco...38547538824056

Daspydyr 

Solid hardtail for its day. I don't know a thing about it, but some say the Swiss invented Mountain Biking!

[h=3]1900s–1960s[edit][/h]Another early example of riding bicycles off-road is when road racing cyclists used cyclo-cross as a means of keeping fit during the winter. Cyclo-cross eventually becoming a sport in its own right in the 1940s, with the first world championship in 1950. The French Velo Cross Club Parisien (VCCP) comprised about twenty-one young cyclists from the outskirts of Paris, who between 1951 and 1956 developed a sport that was remarkably akin to present-day mountain biking.[SUP][2][/SUP]
The Roughstuff Fellowship was established in 1955 by off-road cyclists in the United Kingdom.[SUP][3][/SUP] In Oregon, one Chemeketan club member, D. Gwynn, built a rough terrain trail bicycle in 1966. He named it a "mountain bicycle" for its intended place of use. This may be the first use of that name.[SUP][4][/SUP]
In England in 1968, Geoff Apps, a motorbike trials rider, began experimenting with off-road bicycle designs. By 1979 he had developed a custom built lightweight bicycle which was uniquely suited to the wet and muddy off-road conditions found in the south-east of England. They were designed around 2 inch x 650b Nokian snow tyres though a 700c (27 in.) version was also produced. These were sold under the Cleland Cycles brand until late 1984. Bikes based on the Cleland design were also sold by English Cycles and Highpath Engineering until the early 1990s.

Dilberto

Here is some outdated, MTBR info:

https://www.mtbr.com/cat/older-catego...792_91crx.aspx